Yeah that's what my joint Dr. (forget the proper name of the specialty) prescribed after my knee surgery (I had the right one scoped)
Physical conditioning with heavy backpack
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Yeah that's what my joint Dr. (forget the proper name of the specialty) prescribed after my knee surgery (I had the right one scoped)
Sorry to go off topic here, i will delete and start a new topic lf necessary, my wife recently ruptured here achilles tendon which has recovered with specialist help, she has great difficulty putting any pressure on it such as wearing walking boots, is there anything we could do to help this? She used to walk with me a lot in the woods but now she is worried about damaging the tendon again. She jogs and does some circuit training and backs off when the tendon starts to irritate.
-cut out all wheat and grains from diet
-live on paleo diet with lots of raw salad and veggies
-get hold of bones from grass fed cattle and boil them down overnight to a broth - drink it, use it to cook veggies with, in gravy, ect. make sure they are from grass fed cattle!
-regular ice
-raw ginger topically applied
-take in fresh ginger tea, tumeric, and other anti inflammatory foods
-avoid all prescribed drugs
And regular exercise, stopping when she feels discomfort.
I won a dutch army lowe alpine sting in DPM from ebay and tested it out today with nearly 28kg loaded. I did a 1 mile walk with the dog with some short runs too and it felt light as a feather with unbelievably good load distribution to the waist/hips. It uses the same APS3 back system as my civilian lowe alpine appalacian rucksack except the material and construction is more bomb proof and the capacity is smaller which I think is more suitable to my pennine way loadout which is mostly just food. As for the foot I actually felt it twitch for about 5 steps, then it went away for the remaining quarter mile, so must not be 100% healed yet however I've been running, sprinting and doing all sorts for the past few weeks so I've just got to ease in to heavy backpacking kilogram by kilogram.
Going to do a 22 mile walk with the dogs now, just carrying my drink-safe canteen, mind.
Going to do a 22 mile walk with the dogs now, just carrying my drink-safe canteen, mind.
Obviously its not healed, and prancing about with 28kg is going to make the lifelong damage even worse, you are deliberately hurting your body, I just don't get why.
Why do you think deliberately? As mentioned I've been highly active without problems, so I rightly assumed carrying a heavy load would be perfectly ok, which is was for the first three quarters of a mile until I felt some weird twitching in the area of the injury however than vanished after literally 5 steps forward. I'm glad I know where I stand in the recovery process. I did 8 miles before the dogs looked knackard so had to go back home.. they had been swimming and running about for hours before hand so no suprise there.
Foot was perfectly fine for all 8 miles, so it's just the pack weight I need to slowly build up on. You imply the injury is a lifelong weakness...?
Yes. At worst it very well could be. At best it likely will become one if not allowed to heal completely, and then avoiding future injury. For evidence, look back upstream in the thread and see how many older members are posting about persitant problems caused bu just such behaviot when younger.
